What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?